True or False? Our need to affiliate with others appears to be present from adolescence onward?

FALSE! The need to affiliate with others appears to be present from the earliest days of our lives.

Relatively stable trait

Disposition

True or False? The amount of social contact that is optimal for everyone is different?

TRUE!

____________ leads to increased sensitivity to interpersonal information and results in less effective cognitive functioning.

Social Exclusion

The _______ the stress of a situation, the ________ the need to affiliate with others becomes.

Greater; Greater

True or False? Misery hates miserable company and makes the situation worse and more depressing.

FALSE! Misery loves miserable company.

Affiliation provides the opportunity for _________________________.

Social Comparison

Being aware of what is happening and to know what is going on is____________________.

Cognitive Clarity

The better understanding of our own current feelings is _______________.

Emotional Clarity

True or False? Opposites attract.

FALSE! (most of the time anyways)

The ways in which we form emotional bonds and regulate our emotions in close relationships

Attachment Style

Our attachment style has (Strong/Weak) effects on our thinking about others and our relationships with them and important aspects of our behavior.

STRONG!

Revealing our innermost thoughts and feelings

Self-Disclosure

Fear of rejection and abandonment by others

Attachment Anxiety

What are two main aspects of a person that affects whether or not we like them?

1. Do they make you feel good?

2. Were they associated with a good or a bad feeling? (What was the emotional setting in which you met?)

We (Almost Always/Sometimes/Almost Never) look for people with similar beliefs and attitudes.

Almost Always

When someone thinks like we do, we feel that they are______________.

Correct and Smart

___________ similarities lead to ____________ affiliation.

Greater; Greater

True or False? We tend to dirictely evaluate people based on whether we are in a good mood or in a bad mood (affective state).

TRUE!

Reason by which we are or are not attracted towards a person

Classical Conditioning

The general explanation for the influence of affect on attraction and other attitudes is __________ _________.

Classical Conditioning

We are generally (Aware/Unaware) of the process of classical conditioning.

Unaware

What are the two important aspects for determining attraction in situations like speed dating?

1. First impressions

2. External evaluations

True or False? We always want to be validated by comparisons to others.

TRUE!

We eventually want to (Tip/Balance) the depth of our differences with others we are close to.

Balance

Physical closeness between two people

Proximity

According to proximity, the ________ the physical distance, the _______ the probability that the two will come into repeated contact experiencing repeated exposure, positive affect, and development of mutual attraction

Smaller; Greater

Frequent contact with any mildly negative, neutral, or positive stimulus results in an increasingly positive evaluation of that stimulus

Repeated Exposure

True or False? Being in close proximity to strangers is almost always uncomfortable.

TRUE!

Combination of characteristics that are evaluated as beautiful or handsome at the positive extreme and as unattractive at the negative extreme

Physical Attractiveness

People worry about their appearance and fear that others may snub them because they don't quite measure up on this dimension

Appearance-Rejection Sensitivity

Extent to which two individuals share teh same attitudes

Attitude Similarity

Consistent finding that people respond positively to indications that another person is similar to themselves and negatively to indications that another person is dissimilar from themselves

Similarity-Dissimilarity Effect

Number of specific indicators that two people are similar divided by the number of specific indicators that two people are similar plus the number of specific indicators that they are dissimilar

Proportion of Similarity

The _________ the proportion of similar attitudes, the ______ attraction.

Higher; More

Attraction is not increased by similar attitudes but is simply decreased by dissimilar attitudes

Repulsion Hypothesis

Formulations of ______ and _______ specify the relationship among three things:

Heider; Newcomb

1. individual's liking for another person

2. their attitude about a given topic

3.other person's attitude about the same topic

The formulations of Heider and Newcomb are known as the ________ _______.